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Wildfires News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Wildfires.
Annual prescribed burns are crucial for improving and maintaining pasture and crop land health, and remote sensing data provides near real-time information on location and air quality.
News
June 6, 2025
Image captured May 29, 2025, by the VIIRS and OMPS instruments aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
May 30, 2025
Image for May 8, 2025, derived from OPERA's Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 Land Surface Disturbance data.
Worldview Image of the Week
May 15, 2025
An upcoming training offered by NASA's ARSET program explores how to use FIRMS to track wildland fire activity and its effects.
News
April 9, 2025
Image captured on Mar 26, 2025, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-21 platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
March 27, 2025
Users of NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) can now differentiate between fires caused by burning vegetation and fires from natural heat sources or industrial heat sources.
Blog
March 7, 2025
Image captured on Jan 12, 2025, by the MSI instrument aboard ESA's Sentinel-2A platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
Jan. 17, 2025
Satellite-based maps offer quick first alerts and approximate locations of potential wildfires that are then precisely tracked and fought by teams on the ground.
Feature Article
Jan. 13, 2025